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PEMOCEATIC INCENDIAEISM 



WHAT NORTHERN COPPERHEADS HAVE DONE 

FOR SOUTHERN TRAITORS. 



The Coppofliearl Democracy of tho "ffcate of New Yot'k. lo'olc foi^T^iT'd't^^iLp^'cHsniii^ 
election for an endorsement of the administration of Goyernor Seymour. We propose, in 
a few plain words, to show why they ought to be disappointed. It is well known that 
the hast election in this State wag carried by false pretenses ; that Governor Seymour and 
his allies, in order to secure the success of tho Democratic candidates, professed to be iu 
favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war, and promised to afford the General Government, 
in th& event of their success, all tho aid in their power for tho, auppiosbion of tlie 
Eehellion. \ .■^>^joh -j^i-:- - cjivioch x-^^Hilii;. ym hi!;; 

Disheartened by defeats in the field, misled by false friends, and'rclying upon the 
solemn promises which the Democratic candidate for Governor had repeatedly and publicly 
made, a sufficient number of patriotic voters were induced to yield him their support ; and 
thus his election was secured by a small majority. No sooner was he installed in office, 
however, than he arraigns tho Administration of Mr. Lincoln for alleged high misdemean- 
ors, and otherwise souglit to destroy public confidence in our national authorities. To such 
lengths did he carry this hostility, that the rebel leaders at Richmond recognized the value 
of his services to their cause, and commended him accordingly. 

Instead of using the influence of his high position to further the eflbrts of the General 
Government in pushing on tho war, he so shaped his course as to most seriously ombarrass 
the Administration, thus violating the pledges by which he gained his election, and add- 
ing open perjury to covert treason. By fomenting a riotous and disaffected spirit, in oppo- 
sition to the Draft, he aided to drench the streets of New York, Troy, Buffalo, and other 
cities, with the blood of innocent persons ; to destroy the property of law-abiding citizens, 
and to bring our noble State to tho verge of civil war ; tlius prolonging tlic war by raising 
the hopes of the rebels in their ultimate success, through Northern dissensions, and lower- 
ing our character as a civilized community in the eyes of every nation in"Christendom. 

We charge that, by his speeches and Messages ; by his sympathy with the revolutionary 
scenes in the Assembly Chamber, prior to the organization of the IIousc ; by his hot haste 
to oust the Police Commidsioners in favor of pliant tools of his own ; by his attempt 
to make a partisan machine of our State Militia ; by hU resistance to a binding law of 
Congress, on the plea of its unconstitutionality, as thougli he were the Judge as well as the 
executive authority, and by his refusal to aid in carrying it into execution, Horatio Scy- 
laour ifi responsible for the sicenes of savagery which reddened the sky and crim-suued the 



DO better serriM than " the left wing of Lee's 
army" in Now York, uuLlortho leadership of General 
IRiratio Seymour, that week rendered to the Confed- 
erate cause. It almost compensated for the eacri- 
fices at Gettysburgh. Such a firo in the rear, tho 
Rjohraoad Junta thought must surely pruro fatal to 
the Federal arms. 

The eompHcity of Governor Seymour with tha 
rioters i£ further shown in his corrsapoudence with 
Gcnsral Dix, iu which he refuses to reply directly 
to th« question of the latter, as to whsther he wih 
use tit9 State troops for the enfuroement of the Draft, 
if oeeeeodry, but virtually avers that ho will not. 
This is hie ajiswer : 

" As yea stale in your letter that It ig yoor duty to 
enforee th« act of CoagrsBs.aiul as you apprehend its 
prswiejoas may eicile popular resistance, it is pro- 
posed you should know Uia position which will bo 
hbl4l by the State authorities. Of course, under no 
cifatmtia.ft(,vs, can th^y pta-fwm dtUies ■ scpj-essty con- 
flrfeU is eikei-s ; nor can they uiKlertake to relieve 
ot;ba« frum their pi-oper responsibilities." 

Tke aohuus of Governor Seymour is still further 
eshJWtsd by tha following statement from the Now 
Tmie News, a journal supporting him, and owned 
and *dit»d by a Democratic Member of the last and 
the ensuing United States Congress : 

" €k)v. Seymour has pUdged hU sacred xoord and 
honsr, and the ixxniia of Nbw York trust in him and 
beStTO him, that «/ii one singlt di-ufled ciliztn shall be 
psteA taorty /mm t)u State until Iki CfnUilutionality 
of 4m Gonscrtptiem AeL shall haoe been decided in our 
Coia-le. Ha is virUiaily pledged to do as the Kxpre.ss 
Bays : te cedlfmth the entire miMlia force (f New York, 
torwsidl the kidnappiPig, which Abolitionist howlers 
teH B< yi inevitable, and we entertain no doubt that 
he will keep his word." 

From th« head of the Democratic pArty in this 
State, let us pass to one who stands stiU higher as an 
exfionent of Democratic policy. 

FROM EX PRBSIIiEST PIBBOE'S LETTEB TO JKTTEBSOJf 
DAVra, FOUND AMO.N'G tHS LATTBK'3 PArEIiS CAPTORED 

IS uisSiSUPfi : 

CijuiEXDON Hotel, Kbw York, 1 
Jan. 6, 1S60. J 

• • • • • 

" Withont discusting the question of right — of ab- 
stract power to secede, I have nsvor b&lieved that 
actual disruption of tho Union can occur without 
blood ; and if, through tho madness of Northern 
Abolitionists, that dire calamity must come, tho 
hghtiug will not be along Mason and Dixon's lino, 
iner«Jy . It will be within our own hordes, in otvr own 
streets, beiweon the two classes of citizens to whom 
I have rtferred. Those who defy law aad scout Con- 
siitutional obligation, will, if we ever reach the ar- 
bitriuuiut of arms, find occupation enough ai hovu." 

HX-PRESIDB,Vr PIKRCB'S 
SPEECH AI COKOORD, N. H., JULY 4, 1S63. 

There is no longer doubt as to where tho responsi- 
bility for those unconstitutional acts of tha last two 
years, perpetrated by subordinate olBcers of the 
Fi,-<ieral Government, both eivil and military, pro- 
perly atUches ; but vvbo, I ask, has clothed tho 
I'residenl with power to dictate to any one of us 
wliea wo must or when we may speak, or be sileut 
a pon any subject, and especially in relation to tba 
conduct of any public servant? [Laughter and 
cheers.] By what right does he presume to prescribe 
lorumula ol language for your lips or mine? It Sfem,? 
incredible, and even with this authenticated pap<.>rs 



before us, is amazing, that any such Ksntimeut shOTild 
have found ulterauce from the •lacledrepreeenlatlve 
ofafreo Government like that of the United rftatea. 
My Iriends, let those obey such 6i?h««ts who will; 
i/rnj an/l I }i3ve been nurtured here tmung the granite 
hills, and unler thr clear skies of New Hampshiie, into 
no such servile temperament. 

From these magnates, wa descend to lesser lights 
of the party, but still those wbo spealt for it as f»- 
cogniaed leaders. 

FROM }. A. MACMA«T1«'8 STttCti AT *B13 CRBAI DBHO- 
OUIIO JM»n.«« IS UXIOH BQUARa, MAT IS, 1863. 

Th« qaeetion is about the liberty of the paopls of 
the North. [" Th»t'i it."] Its question is whether 
th« Federal power, defeated wid hurled back by 
the froemen of th« South, i« not going to try whether 
tlioy might not make an easwr conquest by putting 
their yoke on yoiir necks. [Voice* — ■' Never."] I 
tell you it is not by shoutinj " never ;" it is not by 
cheeriujf and groaning; it is by the brawny muscle, 
and, above all, it is by the determined will of free- 
meu born, who are ready to say that they will die 
now if ueceesarj' — [applause] that they will die 
so«ner than yield. But, freuraen, how are yoa to 
save your liberliaa? [A Voic* — " By fighting."] 
Yes, if neeessary, by fighlUvj, but tKit by disorderly 
fightlag, not by street mobs, not by riots, net by 
iuceudiJLf ism, that you are to achieve your liberties. 
If you have punished thi>se who have first wronged 
you, there will be others with different nameg to 
take their place ; but your way is to organize aa 
freemen — to orgauii* in your Wnrds. If your Ward 
is too large, organize in cumpABies by tens and h«a- 
dreds. I^ea organize regiuienis, and sjnd to your 
Governor and aak him for eoBjraissi-ins. This is the 
rigfel that the federal usurpation I'f power has at- 
tempted to iafringe iu Ohio aiid ludiana, the right of 
betiring arms. It is the sacred and inalienable right 
of the freemen of America. It is written in tho 
CoiistitutiOQ of the Uuiled States ; it is written in 
the L'orislitution of each State — that the people shall 
have the right to keep and to bear arms fer the d«- 
feuse of themselves and not of the Union — but of tha 
State. [Tremendous applause.] It ie tha right of 
the militia, not of the regular army — it is the rigbt 
of oursclvas as militiamen to kuep and to bear arms. 
[" Hear, hear, bravo. "] If you have not got them, 
got them, and prepare yom-selv«s orderly and flraily 
to preserve under your gallant and worthy Governor 
Uu libaties of Uiis Slate and this nation. [Great 
applause.] 

At the,same mf^tlng R .S. TnAKrx, of Alabama said: 

FiUow-ciliMns — I have come hcra tonight ex- 
preisly to denounce tho Adminisuation, and if thero 
is any man in this wide continent who has earned 
that right he now stands before yon. When I first 
came from the republic of Alabama, I found the 
American flag waving in the streets of Cincinnati 
and in the streets of New York, and I thought tho 
promises of Abraham Lincoln were to be carried out, 
but they have not, and I detest bis very name for 
the power he has tried to assume over fre<s men. As 
our rights are lost 1 do not ask you to save them, but 
I ask you to redeem the rights which have come 
down through fields of blood from our forefathers. I 
will say to Abraham Lincoln, " I impeach thee in the 
name of liberty, and I impeach thoo in the name of 
Washington, whose chair thou has polluted. I im- 
peach thee in the name of the citijens of New York.and 
execrate thee in the nameof Clement L. Vallandigham. 
(Cheers.) Fellow-citizens, there are various ways of 
expressing public sentimi^nts. One is by saying, and 
another is by acting. [Cheers.] And, now, my fel- 
low-citizens, I call upon you to act. [Cheers.] 

At the game meeting. Judge McCukn said : 
Iu eighteen months this country will ba too hot 
for the men who are now hounding and hunting out 
those who advocate the liberty o''-fr«aspoA^h aod a 
free press. 



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At Ibc samo mealing Iho Neia York A'eics reports 
Mr. Blasksta.v as i?a}'iiig : 

Tliaths hoppd to O-iiI Ihrtt when Val!andl!»hara was 
to be coEVoyeU to Fort Warron that gome ol' Mr. Liu- 
colu's mii.-i:'.Js an<l hirelings would bring him iiito 
tlio eily of Now Yorit, ou his way to Fort Wanen. 
He says " I would issue my writ of liabeaa corpus, 
and g»t Judge McCunn to uidurso it, aud I'll be d — d 
if he would not be libsrated thou." 

At the same meeting, tlie lion. W. B. Rakki.x said : 

Wa say to these genllemen, beware. Be careful 
wh*t yoi; do. Maltc no oihcr elT.irt to stifle us in Iba 
expression of our opinion, for if you <lo, against you 
yourialves may be raised the Uaody han-i that shall 
Larl you from Iho power you have so misused. 



FROM THE NEW YOUK IIEU.^IiB. 
3/ay23,1863. 
At Iha meeting ia Union square the other day 
* * • ♦ McMasters apjieaUd directly to rnTsiCAL 
FOKCB Am) ARMS to reftsi ihe culministraiit'ii. Ur. Blank- 
maii »aid that, Julius Oesar had his Brulua, and 
Cliarle* the I. his Cromwell, and oAutuled retuUince 
TO TJii DtAFT on the ground of the war being unconsti- 
tutional * * * Mr. Vaa Loon app«ahd io thfir 
strwig XU.U to protect their rights in the last extrem- 
ity. 

BOX. D. W. VOORHHB, of IKDIASTA, JULY 4, 1S03, AT 
OOKCOrd, N. H. 

From this spot, and on this holy d»y set apAvt in 
the c«.l«ndar of limo to the cause of liberty, 1 would 
selesaly warn the Executive and Irs advisars, iu eaii- 
dor and not in malice, thalcinl vnr h:^s t/iUjnsi com- 
menctd 171 this unhappy connity if tkey^'alinse to 
pursue their present career cf license and ustirpa- 
tiou. 

CHAUMCEY BCER AT TUIt MASS UfflrriXti AT RITHKHBAD, 

L. i.jjc*!! 30, 1853. 

irore than ono King of England has lost his head 
for less crimes than Abraham Lincoln has commit- 
ted. • « « Death is kis (ioo.ii, as muoh as it was 
old John Brown's in Virgiui.-x. 

July 11, 18C3. 

IHlt UfSURRBCIIO.VART DnlOKTrRATION I.V THJS TVntXTlSia 
WARD. 

The speech cf Chaune«y C. Burr, and its reception 
at th« [Democratic] meeting in the Twentieth Ward, 
ou Thursday cTcuing, is calculated to stir up a oi 6- 
Wce spirit in this e iy. If Mr. Burr is not caruful ho 
will raiie a storm that will lermiiuUe in itisun-eciion 
and ti«K?y scenes in thi.^ ciiy. When this mob spirit 
is once started, no person can tell where it will end, 
or who will be sacrificed by its rongeanco. Whilst 
Mr. Burr poured out his invective, counseled raittance 
if) our KalionaX AxUhrrilies, and ap.oaled to the 
boa.stly passions of the assemblage, ho still declared 
he was a democrat, aud would hare U8 understand 
that he is one of the leaders. But his speech was 
anything but democratic in tone, and shows great 
lack of statesmanship in the leaders of the dcmo- 
cr.itio party in this .ity. In allowing such blustering 
men as Burr to assume to set themselves up as loaders 
of the party iu a c.isls like the present. 

Frem tUo utterances of Deraocrfitio l«u dors we go 
to the statements of the Democratic prc4>s. 



FUO.H Tmi NEW YOXIK. EXPRESS. 

July 13, 1853. 
" The Government," as Mr. Lincoln ia called — so 
we understand the J'li/^une — means, as soon as Leo 
is thoroughly routed, to wnd ou ths army here, to 
enfir.;c tht'-.-^e instruciioBSuf l'rovr>st Uirslial Nugent! 
If this bo so, Viere is no human ami thai ean avert 
ci^■iL xiM.%r arui reooluiCm in the .'jioic of Nciu York. 
««••«•••*•• 
Now, every man sees, who is not a Bourbon, or who 
is not lifted up too lar above the 700,000 wortingmcu 
in tliis city (including their wi v«« and children) , that 
lr)0,(100 men witli $300 in tlieir pockets cannot an- 
lorce the S300 claase against the 700,000, wiJJvout 
oceans of bloed being spilt htre, and ar»n and biir- 
(/liries, and assassinations, (ill toe horrible to Utinh of. 

It is not just. It is the Iiardeet, harshest conscrip- 
tion act we ever read. Such another act scarcely ex- 
ists ou the face of the earth. A'o petyple but the french 
•paopU ear submiUed to anylhinr/ Like it. 

Julyli, 1863. 
The Radical."!, however, insisted upon an Iminediato 
conscriptioa, and sele<'te<i Saturday to begin it, as if 
to onabla the working classes, all day SuB«lay, ia 
tiittir leisure, to ponder upon the J30t) claoso, and to 
talt it over with their atlViglited wives and children. 

Oaly Geelers and Bombas commit such follies as 
tl'K'se Radicals commit, and are now urging President 
Lincoln to commit. 

Jxily 10, 1863. 

God abhors, mnst abhor an "Act" which, whilo 
it drags down all cla.«<««s of labor to the fearful futu- 
rity of a couscj-ipLion, excepts the better-oH" men, to 
whom even %'iijQ may be nothing. * * * • 
But if, as t'ls Timts and the Tritmne adtocats, both 
.State as w^ll as Federal Constitutions are to be over- 
ridden, this m-jb will certainly ead iu rorolutioa. 

The-' Tkisu.ib" tells us, in the vein of the" Timss," 
that the Ck,'BScriplioa will not — must cot be sag- 
I>3ride<.l. * * * There is no misunderslaDding this. 
It is plain as tha wjse ou one's face, aud it fore- 
shadows a dark, dreary future, in which, if persisted, 
what was the history of Frauce under the Bourbons, 
and the hisiory of England under the Charles', wilL 
be the history of the Umted States. 

July n,lS6Z. 

The fresh order for the Conscription to go on— . 
with the threat to strip Meade's army of its soldiers, 
if necessary, to i-nforce the Draft here in New York, 
attract.* attention and creates excitement — but the 
p«ople here are yet incr<xlulousas to thedaciared in- 
tention of the President to usurp the Government of 
this city and of the State. 

FUO.II THE NEW YORK WORLD. 

Julyli, 1663. 

A MYSTERIOLS DttAPT. 

The Draft, which commeneoa in this city to-day, 
and which is about to be enforced all over the North, 
[iromises to be a very mysterions bus;np.5S. * • • 
This is really a serious matter, and In the absence of 
!<ny ofllcial annoanccmenl by the Government, of tha 
number of men it requires, how do W9 know but 
what the secret instructions of the provost marshals 
arc, to Conscript heavily in the Democralio districts 
and slightly in tho Repablican districts? 

JtdylG, 1853. 
« * « * Tlio mob which has shaken Bofjoty to 
its centre in tliis groat city, derives its origin, and 
draws its main power from tho fact that the m.issea 
of the people in New Yorl£ — the men whose brothers, 
and L'insmen, and fellows, by the hundred and tlio 
thoasand, are now fighting the battles of their coun- 
try in the face of tho rebel enemy — have been stung 
l)y the madness, and irritated by tho chicanery of 
the A Iministratlon, into believing that they wore 
about to be torn from their homos by a conscrip- 
tion, al ke fuivcl and odious in principle, and unequMl 
aiuL u/ijtut to thejiovr in its/oim. 



JuJy 20. 

For it Is Impossible to conooal such a glaring .ind 
Eimpls fact as this, that the Couscription has caused 
riots, that nothing else -has caused thorn, and tliat its 
enforcemetii mil cause new riois. 

We reppat, the Conscription caused the late riots. 
The riot here caused riots elsewhere. A renewal of 
the caufo must Ije expecteil to renew the efTect. 

What peril farther riotg mar brinfr, the pa.?t has 
foreshadowed aaid taught us. But no man can foro- 
soe or adwiriataly paint the po^l, and, as wo behove, 
th^e doom auU dtath to aU that American freemen 
hold dear, of home, erf liberty, of peace, of gororn- 
Kient, of political structures, of social ties, if upon the 
heels of conscription follow riots, if upon riMs follows 
martial law. God know* what tho future hilps. We 
turn our eye* from the rerelation of that civil strife 
Into which martial law, to enforce the conscription, 
vrill lead a loyal people. Not States atone belligerent, 
but cities, towns, villages, the peaceful firesidos of 
theKast, tiia populous prairies of the West, rent with 
discord and drenched ia fraternal blood, and then 
the end . 

There ia a feolinj ia t>io commntiity that this Ad- 
ministration is revolutionary, that it has attempted 
to set itself above the Constitution, and that it in- 
tends to support its right to do so by the sword. 
July 21, 1S63. 

• * * * Wliatever reeistacce has been,or may 
bo, offered by Irish or by any other citizens of the 
Uuitfld cilAtas to the "acts of our rulers," has been 
challenged by tho haughty and defiant denial of 
ttese fundamental principles on tho part of the Ad- 
ministration and the party for which they speak. 
They have overridden the law so openly and so often, 
they have fluug itaside so contemplnoitsly, that they 
alone ara responsible, and will by history be held 
rosponsibls, for the pasiion of a people maddened by 
the lawlessness Of power into the lawless assertion 
of liberty. 

•, , . Jt'hj 22, 1S03 

SHOniD THU DRiFT GO OS? 

ff thfe people were ths subjects of King Abraham, 
and thf^refore' bound to obey him, or this country a 
despotism like France, we could understand the force 
of this reasoning ; but this is a free country ; the 
consent of tiio goTerne<i is understrod to be the con- 
dition ujion which all power is admiaistcrod. Now, 
if Congest passes a law the enforcomfut of which is 
so onerous that it create* disorder, riot, shakes in 
fact the very foundations of society, it is clear that 
it is not a wise or just law, and if its wiforcement is 
within the President's discretion it would be wisdom 
in him not to press it upon a reluctant or hostile 
country, 

Juhi 23, isrs. 

• ««•*•« 

A law which is an enormous innovation ; which is 
felt to be (ippro»slve by the whole body of the peo- 
ple : which as neither precedent to supix)rt it, nor 
analogy to lend it countenance in the past Icgiiiation 
of Congress ; which, if uncoiistitutiuiial, is no law at 
all ; and against the constitutioaality of which there 
exist such i-trong presumptions, ought not to ba 
pushed to a bloody cnforooment until the courts have 
Lad an opportunity to pass upon its vali ity 

Julyoi, 1S63. 

• ••*•«« 

The Conscription act now being put in operation is 
another and au entirely different thing. It ignores 
State officers, Stat- intervention, State authority, 
and State laws. It is believed by the b:wt leijal 
minds in the country to be unconstit tional. In its 
execution tlic grossest injtietico Is being done to this 
State, whose quotas already furnished are under- 
rated, and whose quotas to be furnished are over- 
rated. The grossest injustice, too, is being done to 
this city and other localities where Pemocrats are iu 
a majority. The A<lnilnis'.rati n has ri-memb red 
to forget no aggravation of its natural har ships, 
and its organs have omitted no irriUition by which 
it might he rendered disgusting and onerous to a Ireo 
people. 



FROM THK NEW TORK NEWS. 

May 22, 1863. 

KG PART-BTING WTTB DBSPOUSM. 
• ««**«»• 

Porh«ps the gleam of five hundred thousand bay- 
onets may cause them fof a mimient to close their 
eyes, accustomed to no more dazzling instruments 
of justice than the judicial parchment. But it is not 
in ths nature of freemen to count the odds, when 
tyranny confronts them. If they have hesitated to 
ptrike down the sceptre at Iho instant of its uplift- 
ing, Ut their presenl culimi proK thai, it wa..< but th<ip«n- 
thiy'spoAiii, jn-eparimj fur the decii-ivi sj'rin(j. 

The minions of power have exhibited an audacity 
and daring equaled only by their disregard of jus- 
tice ; the people must emulate their boldness, and 
meet their effrontery with a loftier courage. Why 
should they te)lerate for one instant, the interfsrenee 
of the soldiery, of whatever grade, with the strict 
course of civil adjudication? 

May 25, 1853. 

Tan STREXGTH OF DESPOTISM AXD T11J5 WEilCSiESS OF 
THE FB<3PLE. 

Despotism, at the present moment, is strong, and 
Liberty is weak. Tho telegraph is in the hand* of 
Government otDcers ; the Fost-cfflce is no longer in- 
violate ; free speech ie a by-word ; Government 
bastilrs are crammed to overflowing with innocent 
victims ; a Judge of tho Circuit Court of the United 
States openly proclaims that the solo pleasure of Uie 
President is the law of the land for every indivi>iual ; 
and security for life and property have long since 
p.a.'ssed away. Tyranny is all-powerful, a-.id the 
voice of the people is small ; h'U if Ihi suJ>lerran^tni 
political heavint/s itnder our feet art to be trusts, a 
TOom-'/i/ i5 apj>roac?iMi;i jcheti the great jvjjular nwujes 
will throw off the oppression which has so lony weigluid 
them in the dust. 

May 29, 1803. 

Apathy under Government encroachment is the 
attribute of every people, until the goad strikes so 
keenly and the la=h falls so heavily that the sufferer 
throws all his energy into sudicn and violent resist- 
ance. It is only the highest degree of intellectual 
development that will sternly disputa tho first in- 
sidious ai)proach cf tyranny. It is soon to be 
decided whether tba people of tho North have .!»t- 
tained that point of enlightenment. 

JuJyW, 1863. 

THE CONSCRIPTION. : . 

After long hesitation, and sevrral abortive at- 
tempts, the Administration seems to have decided tc 
eaforce the Conscription Act. Like the Proclama- 
tion of Emanciijation, it is an experiment novel and 
antagonistic to tho spirit of our inslilutions. Like 
the Proclamation, it is unpopular with the masses, 
and will, pi-obably, result in most unpleasant conse- 
quences. Ihert is a lurking much ef in the atmos- 
phere that swrouwls this umirlcomt slreinger as it now 
jrrepares to mala il^ forcible ejitry across our thresholds. 
There are symptoms of a ivtde-sfn-ead inclination td^ex.- 
Itmd to U a harsh greeting, cuid to med, its itUrusi'.m 
with somewhat more than passive indifinatv>n. * * * 

July 14, 1803. 

THB ADiaXIOTRATIOIf SnOtTLD STOl' THE DRAFT. 

The experiment of Conscription ha,'? been tried in 
this Metropolis, and the result is what the Adminis- 
tration might have anticipated, liad their perceptions 
not been blunted by fanaticLsm, and famili.irity with 
error. The principle of constrained military servieo 
in a Republic is in itself sufliciently odious and unre- 
publican to have aroused the opiX)sition of the mass- 
es ; but that provision of the Act which creates a 
distinrtion between th? rich and tho poor was too 
much for human nature to endure. It fo.eshadowcd 
so distinctly a design to establish a military deepo 
tism that the instincts of the people took alarm im 
mediately, and the first attempt to enforce the ab- 
surd lawin this city was tho signal for a geuoral up- 
rismg of the working clossos. 



Wehavo had fearftil erperlonco of the rwrnlta of 
the ooercivo policy ia Iho Snulh : let not fanaticism 
dare to proviko Iho terrors or civil strife In tho 
North. If martial law in tha present condi- 
tion of Intense excilemcMit, should bo proclaimed 
in New York city, a Major-Ocueral's oomiiiajid 
will not suDiGa to preserve cvoa tho outward 
signs of traiKiuiUity. A collision between our 
citizens and tlio military will kludlo a flanio 
thiit the blood of thousands will not quench. Tha 
only means of stilUug tha rising storm, without In- 
ducing one yet mure terrible, ia by a proclamatio:! 
that tho Conscription Act will not bo carried into 
eif^ct. 

OUR STVKXL TO TITR rOrtTLACB. 

On aitiTrday, wo said of tho Cfmscription : " There 
is a lurking mischisf in tho atmosphere that sur- 
rounds this unwelcome stranger." Now, it no Imig- 
er lurks: it reveals itself, it advanoes its bold front 
witli violence aad wrath, and swells into turbulence 
and riot. 

In the hour of their anger and delirium, let us .np- 
peai to the manliness and bettor feeling of tho work- 
ing men. * * * 

• * * If they have detormlaod to resist tho 
Oonjcription Act, let their resistance be that of men, 
the firm and elfective opposition of those who are 
conscious of a just and righteous caueo. » » » 
Die, if it need be, to defend your rights, but 1st 
there be no stigma upon tha names of your frater- 
nity, and lot no history herealter recount of your 
Ueads, that your children will blush to read. 

"lOiiA ■•■■ July 15, ISCS. 

rHE pRssinVvr' P^.3 ST'-ppEaj the deai'T. 

Tha draft will not be ouforcod. Tho official order 
to that effect has gone forth from Washington. Tlia 
Ccuscriptioa Act is dead, coffined, sepulchred beyond 
reeurreotion. Naver more will its o.lious prinoiploa 
be thrust upon the c ilixons of this Republic. Tlii'ra 
is no longer any palliation for disorder and turbu- 
lence, a''d if you are men, you will disband at ouco, 
put aside year weapons and your wrath, and take up 
the imptcMieiiis of industry. 

If you comniit one act of violence after this, you 
deserve eternal jgncminy, aud you will receive tha 
condemnation cf the world. You have aJready gone 
60 far that hereafter, in your cahucr moments, yon 
will wonder aud rejient that you could have exhibited 
ench extremity of pas.?ion. Yet, if you pause imme- 
diatrly, your cou. trymon will forgiru and forget 
your violence in view ef the strong provocation you 
have suffered. The ministers of justice will overlook 
your trespapsos, and your future peaceable behavior 
will atone for the brief period of your lawlea.snoss. 

TVe speak to you without hesitation, and with per- 
fect frankness, for you ca^mot bo iguorant that we 
are the friend of the workingraaii, and liavo aJways 
upheld the people's rights. Tho 0)ni?criplionAet in- 
cited yoa to violence — tho Conscription Aet has been 
pronounced a nullity. That shoald end tha matter. 
If you are worthy to be freemen, you will control 
your passions, and this day's sun wiU set upon a 
tranquil city. 

July 16, 1863. 

GOOD KFTECT OF BTCPPtxa inS DBATT. 

As the tidings that the draft is suspended circulate 
among thtf disaffe led populace, a better feeling pre- 
vails, and the workine; classes rclinquiih their unlaw- 
ful purposes. Xono but thieves and plunderers por- 
savero in provoking disturbance, and thesa will bo 
speedily disposed of by tho iiunicipal authoriliea. 
1 ••* it b« <' '=1 inctly understood that, whatever further 
ar.t^ of vi«'enp.n may be perpetrated will be with tho 
rtogi^n of piiia^n. Those who continue to violate the 
uoor^ rtf fi'<» c'lv w'" tioMi fl»a<»rvi< to bo troatcd, aud 
will >»« •••<»aioH_ •• ni<tia%va »ni\ d«aporadoes. intent 
only npon '-•oohur pnH r<u>lna, Tl>n worklngmen 
""Bst l>« rnr(»ri'i f<\ •op^.ratn ".horwooivoa lmm«diatoly 
''"'JM. iho^o riim-n. -^K^ ^iii bHU clinir to tho oppor- 
tunity ol i;i'!"'e''"«r "'•'r T'otoyo proiv»Bsili«s. There 
Is^ovf DO consfiptinn »'> <-A«iKl ; aiul Uierrjore Mo 



July 17, 1&63. 

ST.^TB SOVKRKir.NTT MTJT' DH ViyDICVrK!), 

V^e will venture to assert that Governor Seymour 
will protect ovory citizen of tho State frum con- 
ftrainod service in tha Federal army. • • • « 
T.uy who insist upon the enforcement of Ih: dra/i may 
tbaui their own conclKsUms. 

Same (/«(«. 

TUB DRAIT. 

Wo publish a special dispritch from XVnshington, 
Ftating that Mr. l,incoln has expressed a determina.- 
tion to enforce the draft, notwithstanding the trou- 
ble in this city. We have not the heart to give cre- 
deuco to this statement. It seems impossible that 
Mr. Lincoln ehould bo so cruel and unwise aa to 
speak words that will conjure up a demon in the 
community. Should it bo true, which Ht>;ivca for- 
fend , /actTMvZZ tranquillity, until il be reclaimed vaiih 
hecuU/inbs of human, sacrifice. 

Juh/ 21, 1803. 

RESIST THE DRAFT, BCT OT.EX TUB LAW. 

Tho hnrror that has been excited in the pnhlio 
mind by the outrages upon law and order, i)erpetra- 
ted during tho first four days of last week, ought not 
to diniinisli with time, but should ralbor be kept 
alive as a perpctu.il warning for tho future. On tba 
other hand, however, no atrocities that have been 
committed should bo allowed to divert the eyes of 
good citizens, for a siuglo instant, from tho ■mon- 
strous, whole.sale, diabolical trampling down by tho 
> ■-■deral authorities of the rights of the people of thia 
city. Were tho skirts of tho mob stained with mur- 
der ? 5o are Uiase of onr oypressors. Do the cruel 
brutalities of some of the rioters dosorvo to be held 
up to eternal execration? Still more doe,s tho sya- 
tematic, needless, wanton sport of tho Wixshington 
Government, with the lives, liberties, andfreodomof 
individuals. Is it to the shame, and disgrace of those 
who took part in the illegal proceedings of last week 
that they violated lata, insulted and dofled Jaw, 
scouted the remedies to wrong that are provided by 
LAW? Far blacker, more hideous, detestable, un- 
pardonable, is the guilt of an Administration which 
purposely cements tljo .bulwarks' ofits dfspotisia, by 
smiting down law, th« guarantees of tha Constitu- 
tion, aud the sovereignty of the States, whenever 
thoy iutcrforo with thuir own oUi6us pretensions. 

■*■ •• - - July 29,1863. 

niK ItADNISSS AND DBSIGXS OP THB APMI.VI.?rRATI01f. 

Our rulera have closely adopted the MacbiaTeltaa 
maxim — " That lu greit affairs men are cot to bo 
wicked by halves." They intend to filtto tho fvitl 
tho measure if their iniquity. Thty find that hav- 
ing waded in so far, " rot rning is as tedious as to 
go over.'' They fully intend now to carry o .t their 
designs uf-on popular liberty, and crush It oudor tha 
mailed hand of a military despotism. They arb 
fully aware that tho triumph of tho Democracy, bo 
great have been their oppressions aud persecutions, 
must necessarily involve thoir personal safety, and 
ft fearful responsibility for tho aw ul crimos thoy 
have committed. They are right in this, forikert 
will be no s<ife place on this side nf the pl«nci fnr ihesi 
nun who have proslHtUt:cl thdr jmwe:r to work such great 
wickedness, should the Democracy once otlciin eonti-ai 
of the Goivinmenl. To the ]^vf, whose majesty they 
have violated, thoy will be made to answer bvlora 
tho people, whose rights of civil liberty thoy have so 
wantonly ontragod. Tha pretext, that the Cinserip- 
tion liill must be oufo cod. Is only a prstf xt to etriko 
terror with the mailed hand, juid to conoontrato 
military forces in ditTerant dLstrirls to overawe tha 
pe<)[)lo,and induanco the decision of the ballot boxes, 
as has been done in Delaware and Maryland. It is, 
to day, well undorstooil in Washington, that the com- 
ing fall elections are to be controlled bylho military 
forcp.=i of tha Govcrument ; and ii tho Suite aulhori- 
t ca attempt to resist tho outrage, that the olvM 
magistrate-"; are to bo pushed from their Ptools. and 
military provisional governors apvK)iutod In their 
Bluad. The saino u •eessity which lias been pksidod 
to give col r to otUar outrages, will h^ nrp-M i-. 



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Justlflcatlon o" this last outrage ; and thtn if an in- 
dignant prcrpU do not rise at one man to oveflhrmo the 
opi^tssor Lhen a mthiary dtipotism will rear its fright- 
ful crest ahove the nans ef what was once a free 
Rqpuhlic. 

NEW YORK HERALD. 

May 29, 1803. 

Tha military preco<Jent of Vallandigham's casa 
must bo abaadonad, or tho deeply-sxcited popular 
elemeats of New Tork may he ir^airutd to the mnst 
fearful eiUremities of rtsistance. llie policj of Gon- 
oral Buraside meaiu cixnl vjnr in the Nurlh. 

Julg 21, 1S63. 

Bnt while we fix tho chief respo»sibiljty of the 
roceot (listurlMinces TiThere it Justly belongs, we do 
not absolve tha copperhead journals and the poli- 
ticians, /lom G<nxrnor Seymour down, of thoir sharo 
of the blame. 

Th« copixirheft^ papers should sot hive given oc- 
casion for the outbreat by harping upon and mis- 
reprcsentiug the conscription aul for political effact. 

July 2&,1S53. 

The factions headed by the Tfews and ITorld and 
Mozart Hall, • • * ♦ fanned tha flames, and with 
the Mozart Hall leaders, endeavored to bring about a 
conflict between the State and National Governments. 
Thc«a journals labored to excite Ihepei^le, while the 
leaders of Mozart urged the Governor to lake a stand 
ftfr the State and agamet the Goyernmont. 

.Tuiy 29,1863. 
. Tha feeling against the draft owes its origin to * * * 
ihe diatribe* iif the Copperhead organs, like the iVews, 
World, and Erprsti. * * • Copperhead politicians * * * 
have heoa for months past laboring to bring on a 
reuUulion in ihit city . 

July 51, 1SQ3. 

With thoir nsual consistency, the copperhead 
organs, like the World and Albany Argus, urged 
Cougress to pass a Conscription Act, applauded it 
after it was passed, and then turned arour.d and 
assailed it most bitterly as soon as they thought they 
could make a little political capital by so doing. * * 
Had the»a copperhead organs followed the lead of tho 
Herald in steadily supporting ihe Cimscripiion Act, 
after it became a law, iw riots would have emued. 

THE ALBANY ATLAS AND ARGUS. 

The leading DeoaocraUc journal of the State, says : 

.Tho Evening Journal has published column after 
column of false statistics, and falser arguments, to 
sfiow why the people of this State should submit to 
an inlqvilous atid oppressive ci/nsci-ii>lion, such as has 
been put in force in no other State. 

And again : 

Governor Seymour deplored and deprecatsd the 
rage of i>arty animosity which now dividei5tlie North, 
and which, if carried to a ranch further height, 
threatens to bring about in the Ni/rth a civil uvxr, as dis- 
astrous as thai of tlie sesiiens uJiich now rages betweai 
JVorth aru.1 South. 

And again : 

It has been reserved for America to offer another 
instance of a similar policy by breaking up State 
military organieations, and seattering the soldiers of 
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by, another. Why \i 
stifl furllier in the fool 

zeni to fee sent under w(,™^.. „^.j 

Gooemors, in eompany v)iih black janizanes, to overa\oi 
Uie Legislatures nf Indiana ami Illinois, while the eon- 
soipts of ihjjse States are ccmpeUed to assist in the tourlc 
of ooerauHng us t Who can UU to what length cf mad- 
ntss and tyranny this Administration will not go? 
7hisact (the Conscript Bill) is no less repugnant to the 
tradiliims of the American pe^le in its details than in 
its general scope. AH are subjected to its oppressive 
burdens, the Judge, the Legislature, the clergyman, 
the pauper, the negro, all, in short, except the man 
who can pay three hundred dollars. 

The following expressions of opinion, by. represen- 
tative Democrats, will exhibit still further the revo- 
lutionary spirit of the party : 

A DE3IOCRATIC DEFEAT CAUSE 
FOR REBELLION. 

Hero is another malignant specimen : 
Mr. J. Glanct Jones, Buchanan's Minister to Aus- 
tria, in a speech to the Democracy, in mass meet- 
ing a.ssembl9d, at the Yellow House, Amity town- 
ship, Berks county. Pa. , as recently as Saturday, Oct. 
3, 1S63, used these words : " If we cannot eany the 
election this fall, then there is nothing left us but rdiellion. 

Hero Is another malignant specimen : 

" There, sir, Is the DA^INABLE ABOLITIONIST 
who ailminislers the Government. The people ought 
to RISE UP, AND BY PHYSICAL FORCE HimL 
IIIM FROM THE CHAIR OF THE GOVERNMENT. In 
the evos of God anil men the people would be justi- 
fied. THKY SHOULD do it; and I will go with thera." 
— Judge Pratt's Speech in the Michigan Legislature, 
Febuary 12, 1863. 

Hoi'e is another : 

" We tell them (Congress) that a Ortymnvll ti'ill 
rise in their milst boforc they progress too far , who 
will bring their Hl^AD TO THE BLOCK without 
delay or mvcy." — Ddroil Fi-ee Press, March 44, 1S63. 

Did our space permit, we might continue these 
examples to much greater length. But we have 
already given enough to show the infernal spirit of 
hostility to tho Government entertained by the Cop- 
perhead Democracy. Does any one doubt that, if 
they dared, they would openly jraugo themselves 
a'.ocgsido of Jeff. Davis, and overthrow our free in- 
stitutions, for the sake of place and power T Do not 
many of the bolder sort, like Gr..<NCT Joxis, yet 
mean to try the bullet, if tho ballot fails? 

FaEEJina of New Yokk, be yours tho duty to ront 
this disloyal host so utterly at tha coming election 
that th'iy shall never dare again to rise in rebellion 
against the best Government the world has ever 
s^en. Yuur sons, and brothers, now confronting thj 
armed ho.?ts of treason in tho hold, look to you \o 
meet this fire in the roar, to put down those traitors 
at homo. By your hopes of liberty and conrtitutiocal 
Govornmont for yourselves and for your ohiUlren, let 
not their appeal be in vain. 



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